Falcon Restrepo-Ramos, Ph.D.

Education:

• Ph.D. (2019), Hispanic Linguistics, University of Florida
• M.A. (2021), Computational Linguistics, Indiana University
• M.A. (2014), Linguistics and TESOL, West Virginia University
• B.A. (2009), Translation English, French, Spanish, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia

Software Development and Corpus Creation:

Software de procesamiento de Ensayos en espaÑol y Análisis Lingüístico (Patent Pending). A computational program for the linguistic analysis and assessment of Spanish L2 compositions. The program is composed of 5 NLP modules:
1. A Lexical Analyzer (SEÑAL-LEX)
2. A Syntactical Analyzer (SEÑAL-SYNT)
3. A Grammar Assistant (SEÑAL-GRAMMAR)
4. A Machine Learning Classifier of Language Proficiency (SEÑAL-MLL2)
5. A Machine Translation Identification System (CAPTURA).

Western Caribbean Creole Corpus. A free-access, annotated corpus archived at AILLA, the Archive of Indigenous Languages of Latin America. The corpus currently has data on Islander Creole (Archipelago of San Andres, Colombia).

Publications:

Peer-Reviewed Articles

2022

• Restrepo-Ramos, F. & Denbaum-Restrepo, N. (2022) The syntactic and discursive properties of second person singular forms of address in Paisa Spanish. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics (15)2.
• Restrepo-Ramos, F. Contrastive language policies: A comparison of two multilingual linguistic landscapes where Spanish coexists with regional minority languages. International Journal of Multilingualism (19)3. 
• Denbaum-Restrepo, N. & Restrepo-Ramos, F. Formas de tratamiento de segunda persona singular en el español de Medellín, Colombia: producción y actitudes lingüísticas. Pragmática Sociocultural (10)1. 
• Restrepo-Ramos, F. Neutralization of the tap/trill contrast in the bilingual Spanish-Creole community of the Archipelago of San Andres, Colombia. Ikala: Revista de Lenguaje y Cultura, 27(1).
• Restrepo-Ramos, F. Converging paths of variation: Bilingual rhotics and linguistic change in the Archipelago of San Andres, Colombia. Isogloss: Open Journal of Romance Linguistics (8)1.

2021

• Restrepo-Ramos, F. Writing to increase complexity: Spanish L2 learners’ complexity gains in a college composition class. Hispania: Special Edition on Digital Humanities, 104(4).
• Restrepo-Ramos, F. Non-vibrant bilingual rhotics in a Creole-Spanish Contact Scenario. IULC Working Papers, 21(1). 

2015

• Restrepo-Ramos, F. Incidental vocabulary learning in second language acquisition: A literature review. PROFILE Issues in Teachers’ Professional Development, 17(1), 157-166. 

Chapters in Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings
2021

• Restrepo-Ramos, F. A changing landscape of Voseo in Medellin? The momentum of Voseo in the public signage of the Valle de Aburra, Colombia. In Gubitosi, P., Ramos-Pellicia, M. (Eds), Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 35. John Benjamin Publishings.
• Restrepo-Ramos, F. If signs could talk: The linguistic landscape of the archipelago of San Andres, Colombia. In Leung G., Loschky M., & Leusman H. (Eds.), When Creole and Spanish collide: Language and cultural contact in the Caribbean. Brill’s Caribbean Series.

2020

• Restrepo-Ramos, F. Public signage in a multilingual Caribbean enclave: The linguistic landscape of Old Providence and Santa Catalina, Colombia. In Pascual y Cabo D., Elola I. (Eds.), Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 27, pp. 273–294. John Benjamin Publishings.

2019

• Restrepo-Ramos, F. A sociophonetic analysis of Islander Creole rhotics. Proceedings of the Florida Linguistics Yearly Meeting, 6(1), pp. 76-90.

Other Contributions

• Restrepo-Ramos, F. Confidences from the GTA Life: The Path to Professional Development. [Online] A blog contribution for Successful Teaching. 
• Restrepo-Ramos, F. El español en Estados Unidos: Un recorrido breve por su origen y expansión. CuéntELE: Recorridos e Itinerarios. 5ta Ed., Primavera 2019, Idiomas EAFIT, Medellín, Colombia.
• Restrepo-Ramos, F. Gabmap - A web application for mapping dialectal diversity: Bringing insights from research to the dialectology classroom. AAALGrads Newsletter, Fall 2018 Edition. 

Selected Articles under Review/in Preparation

• Restrepo-Ramos, F. (Under Review) Tap/Trill Variation and Change across Generations of
  Spanish-Creole Bilinguals.
• Restrepo-Ramos, F. (Second author) (In Preparation) Automated Detection of Machine Translation
  Use in L2 Spanish Writing.

Visit Dr. Falcon Restrepo-Ramos's website here.